Warrior Weekly for October 7, 2024 - October 11, 2024

Next Week's Dates to Remember

Sunday	10/6
Monday	10/7	Upper school chapel Community Update Meeting (7pm)
Tuesday	10/8
Wednesday	10/9
Thursday	10/10
Friday	10/11
Saturday	10/12	Happy Birthday Josh Washington! Fall Festival (5:30pm - 7:30pm)

 

Upcoming Dates to Remember

10/14 School Pictures

10/17 Class of 2025 Senior Pictures

 

All School News

Holly Hinds from the class of 2017 reflects on her time at KPA, tells us about what she has been doing since graduation, and then she gives some of her thoughts on KPA's portrait of a graduate.

 

 

Grammar School News

To finish our habitat unit, the first grade students each memorized a part of a chant highlighting a biome. They performed their chant in front of the kindergartners in Mrs Laughery’s class. Each student also authored and illustrated a book modeled after the “Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See?” and read them to the class. We’re so proud of these amazing first graders! 

 

3rd grade is working through our Plant Unit in Science. Did you know we can eat lots of different plant parts? We explored different plant parts and their functions during our “Make a Meal” project!

 

 

Upper School News

 

 

 

 

 

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SoR students got into the spirit this week to gear up for the big games on Friday! Houses competed in a poster competition, and the winner was chosen by grammar and logic students. KPA staff chose the winner of the dress-up competition; the theme was Disney. 

Congratulations to the House of Wilberforce, who won the poster competition, and to the House of Liddell, the winner of the dress-up competition! 

 

 

Athletics News

 

Warrior Weekly for September 30, 2024 - October 4, 2024

Next Week's Dates to Remember

Sunday	9/29
Monday	9/30
Tuesday	10/1	Happy Birthday Christina Hoover!
Wednesday	10/2	KPA Jeans and t-shirt day
Thursday	10/3
Friday	10/4	7am: All Pro Dads 2pm: Pep Rally
Saturday	9/28

 

Upcoming Dates to Remember

10/7 Community Update Meeting 7pm

10/12 Fall Festival 5:30- 7:30

 

All School News

This podcast looks at some of the reasons we study old books. Dr. DePoe give three reasons to study the old books: (1) they inspire hearts; (2) they sharpen minds; and (3) they cultivate character. Then, he addresses some of the common objections to reading them: (1) they are impractical and irrelevant to the 21st century; (2) they lack diversity and contribute to racism and other injustices in our world; and (3) they do not teach the beliefs and values of the Christian worldview. Our hope is that this podcast equips you to understand the value of a curriculum filled with "old books."

 

Miles Parker Goodnight was born on August 28 at 4:34 pm. He was 7 lbs 7oz and 19 in. His big brother, Owen (Pre K), and mom (Mrs. Goodnight- 4th Grade) have been enjoying all the newborn snuggles along with the rest of the family!

 

Our NEW Mighty Warrior program kicked off this week at the Meet your Warrior event! The Mighty Warriors had a blast meeting and getting to know their Warrior athlete, making shaker bottles and sharing a snack! Parents check this link for pictures of your kiddos! 

 

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Huge thank you to our Mighty Warrior sponsor, Massey Orthodontics. Also to Callie Winter, Kimberley Massey, Jennifer Holtzman and Tina Jordan for helping out at the event! 

 

 

Grammar School News

We’ve had another exciting week in first grade with lots of hands on learning experiences. We’ve introduced fact families and are discovering all the ways to make 10 with our “friends of ten” activities. 
So far during our habitats unit we’ve explored ponds, temperate forest, tundra, and grasslands. Mrs Poe, our knowledgeable Rhetoric Biology teacher, was gracious to help us discover some organisms that live in ponds by lending us microscopes and telling us about what we were seeing. Thank you Mrs Poe!
Our students also practiced their writing skills by creating family trees. Come see them on display outside the first grade classrooms.

 

As part of a weather unit, 2nd graders learned more about how tornados form by making “tornado bottles”!

 

PRESENTING WARRIOR PRAISE CHOIR!

This sweet, talented bunch of 3rd-5th grade students are already working hard towards their Fall Concert. 

I am thankful for these students, and their heartfelt voices of praise!

Upper School News

6th Grade Life Science students hard at work building DNA double-helix models as they learn about the structure and base pairs of DNA strands in our cells!
(Front row: Sutton, Linden; 2nd row: Landon, Tati; 3rd Row: Harrison, Lydia)

Colton (left) and Silas (right) building the spine of the DNA double helix, before adding the finishing touches of the DNA backbone!

 

 

Athletics News

Warrior Weekly for September 23, 2024 - September 27, 2024

Next Week's Dates to Remember

Sunday	9/22	Happy Birthday, Delia Joy O'Steen!
Monday	9/23	Upper School Chapel School of Logic Skate Night
Tuesday	9/24
Wednesday	9/25	School of Rhetoric House Lunch
Thursday	9/26	Happy Birthday, Amanda Castner! Happy Birthday, Shelly Kerr!
Friday	9/27	2:30pm Parent Book Club
Saturday	9/28

 

Upcoming Dates to Remember

9/30-10/4: Fall Spirit Week!

 

All School News

The latest episode of the new season of the Headmaster's Podcast features a meditation on Ephesians 6:4, "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."

 

 

 

Grammar School News

The first grade wrapped up the unit on continents and oceans by making and painting salt maps. Then we celebrated with our Continent Cafe. Every student brought a homemade food representing continents around the world for everyone to sample. After tasting foods like fairy bread, egg rolls, and mango pudding, we had a fast round of hands-on stations. Thank you families for the delicious foods you prepared and helping make the Continent Cafe a successful and memorable experience.

 

Last Friday, the 4th and 5th grade classes started painting their own Cave Paintings, after learning about the largest cave paintings in the world in Lascaux, France. Students sketched an image of a bull. Then they crushed pigments and mixed them with their own saliva, just like the cave artists!  Students then began painting their bulls with their mixed paint and their fingers! Students had a blast and will finish their projects this week - look for them to be up on display upstairs near the Grammar Art room soon!

 

 

Upper School News

 

 

School of Logic Art students are working through a survey of the Elements of Art. We are currently covering the Elements of Value and Space. Students have used Vermeer's "The Girls with the Pearl Earring" and Rembrant's "Still Life of Fruit" for inspiration and reference. We created overlapping pumpkins to show depth and an understanding of space, and demonstrated value using oil pastel blending. Students are doing a fantastic job, we can't wait to see our finished projects!

 

Athletics News

The KPA Jr High football team beat St. Andrews in Amarillo on Thursday 33-14. Go Warriors!